Benghazi and the USS Liberty: Is there a parallel?

11:15 AM,
Jun. 14, 2013

Dennis Lamb

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Dennis Lamb
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June 8 marked the 46th anniversary of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. As readers may recall, the USS Liberty was a U.S. Navy signals intelligence collection ship that Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats attacked for more than an hour in international waters off Egypt in an attempt to sink it.

U.S. Sixth Fleet Rear Admiral Lawrence Geis launched two rescue attempts from U.S. aircraft carriers nearby, but Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered that the aircraft be returned to the carrier both times. RADM Geis later told the Liberty's senior Naval ...